Magic is one of the most useful and versatile skills within RuneScape. Once you have learnt to use it properly, you’ll find that it complements many other skills within the game, while also acting as an incredibly powerful tool in its own right.

There are two sides to Magic: combat and non-combat. The use of Magic in a fight may be vital in gaining the upper hand and ultimate victory. Outside of combat, Magic can be used to teleport around RuneScape quickly, used in combination with other skills, or even for making money out of items you have obtained or made yourself.

To cast spells you will need the correct runes. Each type of rune contains a different type of power and is used when casting different types of spells, as shown below:

(m) = Members Only

There are a number of ways in which you are able to obtain runes, as shown below:

• Make them yourself, through the use of the Runecrafting skill.
• Runes may be bought from other players.
• Runes are often dropped by monsters on their death.
• Runes can often be found within chests.
• Runes may be bought from the rune shops in Varrock and Port Sarim.
• Runes may be bought from the Magic Guild.
• Runes may be bought from the Mage Arena.
• Runes may be bought from Ali M.
• Runes can be stolen/bought from Ape Atoll.

Combination Runes

Each combination rune counts as 1 rune for each type of element bound within it. For example, a mist rune counts as 1 water rune and 1 air rune at the same time, meaning that you could cast water strike (Level 5 Magic: 1 mind, 1 water, 1 air to cast) with 1 mist and 1 mind rune.

For more information on how to obtain combination runes, please visit the Runecrafting section of the manual.

Clicking on the book on your side interface brings up the magic spellbook. This will show all of the spells available to you within the game. If the picture of a spell is darkened, it means that either you do not have a high-enough level to cast it, or you do not have the runes in your inventory to do so. If a spell is lit up, then it means your level is high-enough to cast it and you have enough runes in your inventory.

To cast any spell, just left-click on its icon and then click on your desired target. Some spells can only be cast on monsters and players, while others can only be cast on yourself or items.

To get more information on a spell, simply move your mouse cursor over its icon.

You can use the three buttons in the bottom-right corner of your magic spellbook to change the order that spells are listed. By default, this will be in level order, but you can click the ‘fireball’ icon to put all of the combat spells first or the ‘teleport’ icon to put all of the teleport spells first. You can use these ordering buttons with any of the spellbooks.
To the left of the ordering buttons, at the bottom of the spellbook interface, there are 2-4 buttons that remove spells from your spellbook view. Each button removes a different type of spell: you can click the ‘crossed swords’ icon to hide/unhide all combat spells, the ‘teleport swirl’ icon to hide/unhide all teleport spells, the ‘random blobs’ icon to hide/unhide all miscellaneous spells, and the ‘graph’ icon to hide/unhide all skill spells. Clicking on these icons again will add them back to your spellbook view.
On the bottom-left of the magic spellbook interface is an icon that looks like a shield. This shield represents ‘defensive casting’. If you click this button, you will gain Defence experience whenever you cast combat spells, at the cost of receiving a reduced amount of Magic experience. To return to casting your spells normally, simply click the button again.

When you cast combat-related spells, there is a chance of failure. This is dependent on a few factors such as your magical attack bonuses, the magical Defence bonuses of your opponent and your Magic experience. For offensive spells, if you fail to hit your opponent, you will still get the ‘base experience’, which is the experience for casting the spell. If your spell does inflict damage, you will be awarded extra Magic experience.

A description of the spell and a list of which runes are required will be shown when you move your mouse over it. Each required rune has two numbers shown below a picture of it. The first number indicates how many of that rune you have and the second number indicates how many are required in order to cast the spell.

The numbers will be in red when you do not have enough of those runes.

You will find that heavy armour, particularly metallic armour, conducts Magic. Mages will often find themselves more effective against a hand-to-hand fighter in full armour than other enemies. You will notice enemies in full metal armour will be hit harder by spells, and wearing heavy metal will negatively affect your ability to cast spells successfully.

It is recommended that mages wear light robes, which allow magical power to flow through their form freely.

Sometimes spells will fail to work. If a spell fails, you will still gain the base experience for casting the spell and you will still use the runes required to cast it, but you will see a ‘splash’ effect on your opponent showing the failure of the spell. The higher level spells are more likely to fail, but as your Magic ability improves, you will cast spells successfully more of the time.

There are two ways of casting combat spells. If you left-click on a spell in your spellbook and then choose a target, you are automatically choosing to ‘autocast’ it. Autocasting means that you will continue to cast that spell unless one of the following occurs: you elect to stop, you cast another spell, the opponent is defeated, you select a combat style from your combat side interface, or your rune supply runs out. While a spell is selected as an ‘autocast spell’ – it will have a light blue outline around it on your magic spellbook – you will autocast that spell when you target your next opponent.

To stop selecting your autocast spell is very simple: just left-click its icon in your spellbook. To choose a different autocast spell, simply click on another spell icon (assuming you are able to cast that spell, of course).

The second method of casting a spell is ‘single cast’. This will cause you to cast a single instance of that spell, and you will not continue to cast after this instance. To single-cast, right click on a spell icon and choose the ‘single-cast’ option.

You are only able to autocast combat spells. The default action for non-combat spells is single-cast.

Ranged is a very flexible and useful skill to develop as part of your arsenal. It allows you to attack opponents from great distances, using a variety of projectile weapons. The bow and arrow is the most common weapon used by rangers. However, you can also train your Ranged skill using other weapons, such as throwing knives, darts and javelins.

To get started in the Ranged skill you will need a basic bow and some arrows.  

You can buy ranging equipment, such as bows and arrows, from archery stores in:

• Catherby
• Rimmington
• Varrock

Look for the archery shop symbol on your minimap to help you find the exact location of such stores.

To wield a bow in your inventory, simply left-click on it. Then left-click on a set of arrows in your inventory to store them in your quiver. You are now ready to attack your opponents.

Bows are the favoured weapon of rangers. They can fire normal or poisoned arrows, which can inflict additional damage on an opponent. Longbows are more powerful, but at the price of rate of fire. Shortbows have a quicker rate of fire, but they sacrifice power to achieve this.

Like all other forms of combat, you must select a monster or player that you wish to attack by left-clicking on them to begin the fight. You will now begin to fire arrows at your chosen target until you run out of arrows, are attacked by another monster or player, die or defeat the monster.

As you fire your arrows, some will miss, lodging into the ground next to the monster. After the battle, you can retrieve the arrows and use them again. Please note there is an 80% chance of keeping any projectile and that anything you fire will only remain for a couple of minutes, so be prepared to lose a few if you are training for a long time!

You cannot attack a monster or player if you do not have a direct line of sight (for example, if there is a tree or wall between you and your enemy). When enemies are attacked by ranging, they will attempt to run and attack you in hand-to-hand combat. If you decide to shoot at a monster from the other side of an obstacle, then the monster will not be able to retaliate, thus saving you from taking damage.

Be warned that some monsters have the ability to use Ranged attacks and will attack you from a distance. The most accomplished rangers will use the terrain to gain an advantage over an enemy, as they are relatively weak in hand-to-hand combat.

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Accurate
Rapid
Long range

There are three recognised forms of Ranged attack – ‘accurate’, ‘rapid’ and ‘long range’.

All ranged weapons use these three attacking styles. Simply click on the crossed swords icon in the control panel.

You will then be able to control your attack style from the interface that is displayed.

When the Ranged attack style is set to accurate, your arrows are more likely to strike your opponent and cause damage . Using the rapid attack style increases the rate at which you release the arrows – your character fires more often. The long range attack style allows the player to attack an opponent from a greater distance than the other two attack styles.

 Accuracy: Your accuracy when ranging determines how often you inflict damage on your opponent. It will increase as you achieve a higher Ranged level. Your accuracy will also depend on all the items you have wielded, i.e. weapons and armour and the Ranged bonuses they provide. This is the equivalent to a melee fighter’s Attack skill.

Please note: Your Attack, Strength and Defence skills have no effect on your Ranged success.

The better the bow or ranged weapon you wield, the higher your Ranged attack bonus will be.

Leather and dragonhide armour will provide you with various defence bonuses (stab, slash, crush, magic and range), as well as a Ranged attack bonus.

Ranged Strength: Arrows and other ammunition do not provide any form of attack bonus or defence bonus, but the stronger the ammunition you use, the more damage you will inflict on your enemies. This is just like the way Strength bonuses work on melee weapons.

Melee combat is divided into three main areas: Attack, Strength and Defence. Attack will determine your accuracy when fighting and will increase your consistency when hitting opponents. Strength will determine how hard you hit your opponent. Finally, Defence relates to how resilient you are to attacks and how often your opponent will hit you. The higher your Defence, the more likely the opponent is to miss. 

To train the three skills requires you to fight the numerous and various monsters in RuneScape. 

Wielding a weapon will display the training styles available and what combat skills you can train with that weapon. 

This screen shows the weapon you are wielding and the combat options for that weapon. To find out more about each style, move your mouse over the icon. 

To train Attack, you will need to select ‘Accurate’ attack styles from the combat menu (to find out which style is which, scroll your mouse over the icons). 

Having a higher Attack level not only means you will hit the opponent more often, but it will also enable you able to train with stronger/better weapons. 

To read more about Attack and weapon types, see the Combat – Weapon Types page. 

To see what you can wield with your Attack level, see the low, medium or high level melee equipment pages. 

Strength ultimately determines the amount of damage you can deal to an opponent. With a strong weapon and a high Strength level, you will find yourself able to deal a significant amount of damage to a monster or player! 

To train Strength, you would use the ‘Aggressive’ options from the combat sub-menu (to find out which style is which, scroll your mouse over the icons). These will purely train your Strength, making you able to gain Strength levels quicker. 

To find out what you can wield with your Strength level, see the Melee subcategories. 

Defence refers to the chance you have of being hit. A higher Defence level makes you a tougher warrior, giving you the ability to last longer against any foe. 

To train Defence, you should select the ‘Defensive’ option from the combat side interface (to find out which style is which, scroll your mouse over the icons). You can also train your Defence by selecting defensive casting from the bottom-left of your magic spellbook. 

A large part of Defence is armour. Having more resilient armour, combined with a good Defence level, will minimise the chances of being hit. As with Attack, there is a variety of choices depending on your Defence level. 

To read more about Defence and armour types, see the Defence – Armour Types page. 

To see a tabled listing what you can wield with your Defence level, see the low, medium or high level melee equipment pages. 

Training controlled will boost all of the skills (Attack, Strength, Defence and Constitution) equally, this means that the experience you gain is divided up among the skills. Although this may seem slower to some players, it means that you are increasing all four skills at one time. 

To train controlled, just select the option in the combat screen for the weapon you are using (to find out which style is which, scroll your mouse over the icons). 

The amount of experience you get from hitting an opponent is based upon a number of things. 

The experience you receive will vary, depending on the combat level of the monster you are fighting. You are in control of what experience you receive as you can choose your fighting style, therefore controlling how your experience is distributed. 

When training, it may be worth considering your opponents’ (player or monster) weaknesses. Certain armours are weak to different styles of attack. The main Attack styles include stab, slash and crush attacks. 

For example if your opponent is wearing a light robe material, a slashing weapon such as a scimitar should have no problem tearing through the armour. 

Similarly, investigate whether a puncturing ‘Stab’ attack could deal the most damage, or if an aggressive crush attack to smash through armour is necessary. 

Click here to view the Melee FAQ

Below is a list of armour available and a short description of each. 

Below, a number of weapon types in RuneScape are detailed, please note the ‘Speed’ bar. 

The more the speed bar is coloured in, the faster the weapon/weapon type is. 

(m) = Members only 

Warning!
The Wilderness is the most dangerous and high risk area of RuneScape. If you have little or no experience of player-vs-player Wilderness, we strongly advise you to read the Wilderness Getting Started guide before venturing there.

• The Wilderness is a player-vs-player environment, and players will attempt to attack and kill you.
• In PvP areas of the Wilderness, you will not leave a gravestone behind when you die and you will not go to Limbo. If you are player-killed, any items you drop will be visible to the player who did the most damage to you, and you will not have a choice over items that are dropped. Only take items that you are prepared to risk!
• Manually drop items on the floor and they will appear immediately for all players to pick up.
• Attack another player without them attacking you recently, and you will become skulled. If you die while skulled, you will drop all of your items, unless you have activated a Protect Item prayer or curse.
• Enter a multi-way area and more than one opponent will be able to attack you at any one time.
• Log into a High-risk Wilderness World and you will not be able to activate your Protect Item prayer or curse while in the Wilderness.

Battle is joined

RuneScape isn’t just about getting your skills up, accumulating wealth, going on grand quests or playing activities – sometimes it’s about proving yourself to be the mightiest warrior, sorcerer or ranger.

The Wilderness is where you can fight the most deadly of foes: other players. There are very few rules of engagement in the Wilderness and the battlefield you fight on is huge. Show proficiency at defeating these other players and you will be able to loot impressive items from them!

There are no requirements if you wish to start fighting in the Wilderness. Free players and members can player-kill across the great majority of the Wilderness, with only a few isolated locations being exclusively members’ content.

A Wildy warning

To player-kill in RuneScape, you will need to make the trip north to the Wilderness. If you wish to join others, players regularly accumulate and prepare at Edgeville before making their way into player-killing areas. The Wilderness can also be accessed north of Varrock, north of Falador, from Edgeville Dungeon and west of Daemonheim. A vast wall separates the mainland from the Wilderness, and you will be warned of its dangers before you cross it. To turn off these warnings, talk to the Doomsayer in Lumbridge.

You should be aware of a couple of points before you jump straight into the fray:

• You cannot use or equip any borrowed items in the Wilderness. Similarly, you cannot start lending anyone your items while you are in the Wilderness.
• The effects of extreme potions are reduced to their ‘super’ equivalents while in the Wilderness.

There are a few simple rules that determine who you can or cannot attack in the Wilderness. You can attack anyone whose Combat level is within a certain range of yours. The boundaries of this range are determined by adding and subtracting the current Wilderness depth from your combat level. So, a player with a combat level of 80 in level 5 of the Wilderness would be able to attack or be attacked by players with combat levels of 75 to 85.

If you can attack a player, their combat level will be displayed in green, yellow or red, just like a monster’s combat level. If you cannot attack them at all, their combat level will be white.

You may encounter players who have a ‘+’ after their combat level and a number following that ‘+’. This is an addition to the player’s combat level based on their Summoning skill. This is to warn you that the opposing player has the potential of becoming more potent in combat by summoning a familiar. The additional levels do not take into account any summoned familiars or pouches or scrolls in that player’s inventory.

The summoning boost to a player’s combat level is not a factor in determining who you can or cannot attack in the Wilderness. To find out more about Summoning in the Wilderness, read here.

There are several exits that lead out of the Wilderness, and each of these could easily be used to escape combat. To discourage this behaviour – so that almost all PvP battles end with a victor – it has been made impossible to access the following areas unless you have been out of combat for ten seconds:

• Corporeal Beast’s lair
• Daemonheim’s west gate exit
• The frozen fortress in the Deep Wilderness
• Mage Arena
• Trollheim beacon ladder

It is also important to note that Wilderness portals cannot be accessed if you have been in combat for the last 10 seconds, and you may not use them if you have been recently teleblocked.

There is a safe haven from player-vs-player combat just after the Wilderness wall. This small area gives you a breather before you enter PvP areas. You may cross the Wilderness wall if you are in combat.

It is possible to teleport away while in the Wilderness, although you should be wary of those who use the Teleblock spell. This spell will rob you of the ability to teleport away for a period of time. The Home Teleport spell can also be interrupted if you are attacked by an opponent while the teleport animation is still running.

You will not need to enter PvP areas of the Wilderness while playing quests or activities. Spirit of Summer, Summer’s End, Defender of Varrock and Curse of Arrav all have access points outside of the Wilderness that will guide you through the Wilderness without being exposed to PvP combat. Additionally, portals to Clan Wars, Stealing Creation and Fist of Guthix can all be found in the Gamers’ Grotto, to the north of Falador.

Dying and dropping items in the Wilderness is not the same as elsewhere in RuneScape. When you die outside of the Wilderness, you leave a gravestone behind, which protects your dropped items for an amount of time before the tradeable items become visible to all players.

In the Wilderness, no gravestones are left when you die. You will respawn at your nearest ‘hub’, which will be Edgeville, and there will be NO timer to pick up your items. Dropped tradeable items are immediately visible to the player who did the most damage to you before you died, and that player can pick up and keep your items as they see fit. After one minute of being visible to this player, any remaining items then become visible to other players. You do not travel to Limbo as you would elsewhere in RuneScape.

If you drop items deliberately on the floor, they will immediately be visible to everyone else; this applies to items dropped from a familiar too. Any items put on a table in the Wilderness are immediately visible to other players

The majority of popular PvP untradeable weapons and armours will drop in an untradeable form. There are far too many of these to list, but the following list should give you a strong idea:

• Degradeable equipment will generally be converted to a tradeable, degraded version
• Enchanted equipment will generally be converted to a tradeable, unenchanted version
• Recoloured equipment will generally be converted to a tradeable, non-recoloured version
• Other popular untradeable equipment will generally be converted to coins (TzHaar fire cape, Korasi’s sword, Barrelchest anchor, etc)

The number of items you retain when you die is dependent on whether you are ‘skulled’. It is also affected by whether you are using a Protect Item prayer or curse. You can tell that you are ‘skulled’ if your character has a skull and crossbones icon above their head.

Death without a skull above your head means that you retain the usual three items when you die. These three items are the ones with the highest value in your inventory and worn inventory (determined by their Grand Exchange guide price). You can check which items you will keep by clicking the ‘Items Kept on Death’ button in your worn inventory and selecting ‘What if I Entered the Wilderness?’.

Death with a skull above your head means that you keep none of your items when you die. Instead, your tradeable items will drop and become immediately visible to the player who did the most damage to you (your PKer), and will become visible to all other players one minute later.

So, what makes you become skulled? You become ‘skulled’ when you initiate an attack on another player in the Wilderness and that player has not previously attacked you recently. Once skulled, you become a tempting target for other player-killers, as other players know that you will drop all of your items when you die. You will remain skulled for 20 minutes.

You can also affect the number of items you drop by activating a ‘Protect Item’ prayer or curse. The prayer requires level 25 Prayer, while the curse requires level 50 Prayer. Once activated, the prayer and curse allow you to protect one additional item when you die; so, if you are skulled, you will retain one item on death, while you will retain four items if you die while not being skulled. On High-risk Wilderness Worlds, you cannot use the Protect Item prayer or curse in the Wilderness, making them an especially dangerous place to player-kill.

For some, the danger of simple PvP in the Wilderness will not be enough: they will want to ensure that skulled death in the Wilderness will always, without fail, mean that the victim drops every item they are holding. To offer this high-risk, all-or-nothing style of gameplay in the Wilderness, we have introduced the rather simply named ‘High-risk Wilderness Worlds’. To find out which worlds are high-risk, go to the Themed Worlds page. You will be warned of the world’s danger when you attempt to log in. Once you have entered these worlds, you will be unable to activate the Protect Item prayer or curse while in the Wilderness.

The danger of the Wilderness is increased many times if you are in multi-way combat. Multi-way combat is limited to certain areas and dungeons of the Wilderness, and is denoted by a crossed-swords icon on your game screen. You will find pockets of multi-way combat throughout the Wilderness, with the Revenant Dungeon being a strong example. In these multi-way areas, you can be attacked by any number of players and creatures at one time, and you may attack opponents who are already in combat with other players. This makes multi-way areas particularly demanding, as the chance of dying and dropping items is greatly increased.

Multi-way combat also allows you to use your familiar in combat situations. Read here for more information on using familiars in PvP situations.

Whether taking a beast of burden into the Wilderness to act as food storage, or bringing a combat familiar to deal additional damage, a familiar can be of great benefit. Familiars can attack or be attacked in multi-way areas of the Wilderness (denoted by a crossed swords icon on your display). When outside of multi-way combat areas, your familiar cannot be right-clicked and attacked, nor can they target other players or creatures.

As described in the Getting Started section, familiars do not affect your combat level in terms of deciding whether you can attack or be attacked by a player in a certain depth of the Wilderness.

When your familiar dies or despawns while carrying items in the Wilderness, the items will be dropped. If it was killed by another player, that player will get the dropped items first, then they will become visible to all other players after that. Otherwise, dropped items from a familiar will become visible to everyone immediately , so you can’t sneakily dismiss your familiar to prevent PKers getting the loot.

Attacking someone’s familiar in the Wilderness follows the same rules as if they were a player: if you attack the familiar of someone who has not attacked you recently, then you will become skulled and will drop all of your items if killed.

How can I find out how much I’m risking?
Your ‘Items kept on death’ interface (on your equipped inventory tab) has information about the total value of your items, as well as the amount you are risking. If you are risking enough to be eligible for a good drop, the value of your risked items will be coloured green. Click here to read more about the Items kept on death interface.

What items can I take into the Wilderness?
All items can be taken and used in the Wilderness, unless they are lent to you by another player. If they have been lent to you, you will not be able to use them in the Wilderness for player-killing or skill activities. Korasi’s sword can be taken into and used in the Wilderness.

Where can I find the revenants and PvP World items now?
The revenants, inhabitants of the Wilderness from 2007-2011, can now be found in the Forinthry Dungeon. Fight them if you dare, as they will change their methods of attack according to how you are fighting them. We have added PvP World items (statuettes and PvP weapons and armour) to their drop tables.

Combat Levels
The very first thing you need to know about combat is what a combat level is and what you can do with it.

The combat level depends on the combat skills of a player or NPC. Generally, the higher the combat level, the more skilled the player or NPC is in combat.

An important thing to note is that combat level is based upon the armour and weapons that an NPC has, natural or equipped. For example, a black dragon has a higher combat level not only due to its natural Strength, but also because of its natural armour (dragonhide) and weapons (claws and fire breath).

When you hover your mouse cursor over an NPC or player, that person’s (or NPC’s) combat level will be displayed.

Combat levels in green mean that you have a higher combat level. Combat levels displayed in red mean you have a lower combat level. If the colour is displayed in yellow, it means the player has a similar combat level to you, or the NPC is within your combat level range.

Your own combat level is calculated from your statistics, using either melee (Attack and Strength), Magic or Ranged, along with Defence, Constitution, Prayer and Summoning. Summoning is only included in this in certain circumstances, however:

• If you have a familiar out, a Summoning pouch in your inventory, or you have recently dropped a Summoning pouch, your combat level will include Summoning.
• If you do not have a familiar out and have no pouches in your inventory, it will show your normal combat level with the extra Summoning levels indicated by a plus sign. For example, 50+5 if your combat level is 50 not including Summoning and 55 if Summoning is included.
• If you are in the Wilderness, your normal combat level will be displayed, with the extra Summoning levels indicated by a plus sign, as mentioned above. This is so that other players can be warned about a potential increase in combat level if you begin to summon familiars. Summoning levels are not factored into any calculations related to who you can or cannot attack in the Wilderness.

There are two forms of combat area found throughout the land of RuneScape – single and multicombat areas.

A single combat area restricts players so that any player can only fight a single target at any time. Similarly, any target can only be attacked by one player at a time.

Multicombat areas are identified upon entering by two crossed swords appearing in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Anywhere else is classed as a single combat area. Multicombat areas are especially dangerous in the Wilderness as more than one opponent can attack you at a time, and there is no shortage of them – players and monsters alike. This could be beneficial to a player because, by fighting as a team, you will decrease your chances of dying and will increase your chances of defeating stronger opponents.

Life points are your health! They are represented by the bar above your head during combat.

The green area on your life bar shows your remaining health, whereas the red shows how much health you have lost. If you want or need a more accurate view of your health, look at the life points globe next to your mini-map. This will display the number of life points remaining from your total; for example, 180/450.

Always keep an eye on this and make sure that your life points do not reach 0, or you will die! To avoid death, you will need to heal during a fight to restore your life points. For this you will need food. To see what food is ‘best’ and what heals the most, see the Cooking guide.

When fighting an opponent, you are likely to become damaged and lose health. The health you lose is displayed on red ‘hitsplats’ rising from your character. These hitsplats are also used to display the damage that you are doing to your opponent (these will rise from your opponent, as shown in the image to the right). You can view the type of damage that is being dealt (melee, ranged, magic and more) by looking at the icon next to the number. A ‘cross’ icon indicates a miss, with no damage dealt.

If you find you are losing a battle, then you can run away by clicking on the ground. If you do retreat it’s best to keep moving, as monsters will pursue you and carry on attacking. If you run far enough away, monsters will eventually give up the chase.

If you are unfortunate, or do not take any health supplies, you may die as a result of combat. If this happens, you will appear in Limbo and will be able to choose your respawn point. This point will always include Lumbridge, but you may find that your ‘hub’ – the last city you passed through – is included on this list, and a number of respawn points that you have unlocked via quests.

If you die normally (without a skull over your head), you will be able to choose three items you can keep on death in Limbo. These are set by default to the most valuable items according to the Grand Exchange guide price, but can be changed while you are in Limbo. If you are using the Protect Item prayer or curse at the time of your death, you will retain four items. You may also be holding a number of items that are kept automatically; this is because they are quest items, or are useful but common items that would be awkward to retrieve if you lost them. Coins are protected in this way.

If you have any doubts as to what you will keep when you die, simply click the ‘Items Kept on Death’ button on your worn interface.
If you were ‘skulled’, you will retain none of your equipped or carried items. This will happen if you die in the Abyss, or if you die in the Wilderness having initiated an attack on someone who has not attacked you recently.

The only exception to this is if you are using the Protect Item prayer. This prayer (if activated near the time of death and you have enough Prayer points to make it last until your death) will allow you to keep one more item than usual. You cannot use the Protect Item prayer or curse on a High-risk Wilderness World.

NOTE: The value of an item is dependent upon the guide price on the Grand Exchange. To get an indication of these prices, you can use the price checker button in your worn inventory interface.